Family Tracing brings hope and connection.
The Salvation Army received this inquiry, “I would like to meet my father, get information about my medical/family history and hopefully have him in our lives (mine, my daughter’s). Can you please help?”
Did you know The Salvation Army helps individuals and families reconnect with their loved ones? We do.
“Sarah” contacted us and told her story of how she had been searching for her biological father and had been looking for him on her own since she was 15. She went on to say, “at first I wanted to find him so I could meet my father and hopefully have a positive relationship with him as I grew older. I now have two beautiful daughters of my own and would really like for him to be in our lives and also I would truly like to know our medical and family history as well as nationality.”
She began by calling every individual with her father’s last name listed in the phone book from B.C to Toronto for the past 8 years – grasping at straws trying to find someone that had any connection to him and who could point her in the right direction. Sarah also joined Mocavo and a couple of other free people finder sites posting her story.
But only in coming to The Salvation Army, was she able to reconnect to her long lost father. “I truly cannot thank you enough, you have found the piece that has been missing for so many years. I don’t know how you did it but you did and I am eternally grateful. You have helped make a broken family wholly for the first time in 25 years . What the Salvation Army Family Tracing team did is amazing and I am so very grateful to have been blessed with the help you have provided.”
About Family Tracing
The mission of the Family Tracing Service is to restore (or sustain) family relationships by tracing relatives with whom contact has been lost. The decision to accept the invitation to reconnect is always left to the person sought, as the inquirer will not be given any information without permission. In communication between Family Tracing and the inquirer, and between Family Tracing and the missing person, the preceding statements are clearly given to both parties.
The service provided to the community by Family Tracing Service of The Salvation Army is free of charge. Any methods we employ are known only to the Family Tracing Service, and the source of any specific information is not revealed. Each request is carefully considered to make sure that only appropriate requests are accepted. We require that the inquirer is an adult relative of the missing person, and we also require adequate confirmation of the inquirer’s identity.
Starting with the initial inquiry the Family Tracing Service operates in a position of trust. That trust is guarded and privacy is carefully maintained throughout the entire process: on behalf of the inquirer, the person being sought, and any contacts or resources that are part of the search process.
Family Tracing also conducts international searches, with offices in several countries, including Bermuda, USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, France, Finland, Denmark, and South Africa.
